Evening Star Missionary Baptist Church
Evening Star Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Gary, IN 46406. It is one of 275 churches in Gary, and one of 67 Baptist congregations in the city.
Gary, IN, 46406Evening Star Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,291 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Indiana — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Evening Star Missionary Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 53.7%
- Child Poverty: 50.4% (33.0–67.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 47.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.4%
- Poverty Rate: 36.2% (22.4–50.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.6%
- Diabetes: 27.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.7%
- Social Isolation: 37.6%
- Unemployment: 9.5% (2.5–16.6%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.7% (5.4–22.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Gary city is served by 184 churches — about one congregation for every 375 residents.
Churches near Evening Star Missionary Baptist Church
- God's Way Church of Deliverance — 0.2 mi away
- Temple of Deliverance in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Moving In the Spirit Ministry — 0.4 mi away
- Sweet Pilgrim of Grace Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Temple Of Deliverance In Christ (tdc) — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Bethany Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Davis Memorial AMEC — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Moving In the Spirit Ministry — 0.4 mi away
- Sweet Pilgrim of Grace Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Bethany Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away